Rachel Perkins is a director, writer and founder of Blackfella Films. She leads a foundation that is recording languages and songlines through the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

How can the major parties address the rise of populism in Australia?

Patrick McCaughey is a former director of the National Gallery of Victoria and has published widely on Australian art.

Andrew Fuhrmann is an editor and literary critic. He is a researcher in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne and has taught at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Kim Mahood is the author of Craft for a Dry Lake, Position Doubtful and the essay ‘Kartiya Are Like Toyotas: White Workers on Australia’s Cultural Frontier’.

On learning that the police officer who killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, had been exonerated, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ son went to his room and wept. Coates would not ...

Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptation A fourth-grader in El Lago, Texas, a coastal ...

Australia’s Tracey Moffatt leads the way at the 57th Venice Biennale Each Venice Biennale is different: this keeps us coming back every two years, for the feast-of-too-much-art, the slogging ...

The nameless teen narrator of Exploded View (Text Publishing; $29.99) may have never read a line of Larkin, but she shares with the poet a cruel knowledge of life: first boredom, then fear. Killing ...

A classically schooled composer seeks shelter from the cacophony of modern life “The first thing I ever recorded was a cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Crazy’,” the avant-garde musician Julia Holter tweeted ...

Luke Goodsell is a critic and editor who has contributed to the ABC, SBS and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Believe the hype about the Tasmanian comedian’s Netflix special By now, someone in your life has urged you to watch Nanette, the Netflix special from Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby. They would have ...